"First off, we needed to stop the show - we knew it was time," Dylan said. "My brother and I actually quit the Disney show - one, because it had been six years and we thought that the glory days of the show were definitely in the younger series, and we stopped it then."

However, Dylan also revealed that he and his brother were hoping to get producer credits for the final season and had come up with a concept in which Zack and Cody would return to the hotel, set up a future spinoff by befriending a child at the hotel, and end up going separately to college and to work in a used car dealership.

"We said, 'If we're going to do one last season it's going to be on our terms - we're going to produce it and it'll be a set up for a new show'," Dylan explained.

"The reason we wanted to do that too - it would also set up all the cast and crew we've worked with for six years, so they would not lose their jobs [because of] our decision to go to college in real life. They could continue to work and we'd also be making money off the producership."

Dylan explained that Disney rejected the idea - "They didn't trust us enough after all this time" - but explained that he and his brother agreed to another meeting with executives.

"At the time we were like, 'We don't want to do that'," he confessed. "Previously when we had pitched our idea it was kind of this situation where they had almost laughed in our faces and pushed us out the door and it was really disrespectful, so we were like, 'We'll hear them out, but only so far as we want'."

Dylan explained that Disney then suggested an idea with huge similarities to their own, saying: "[They said,] 'You guys don't get producer credits'... And they pitched us our idea in Miami with Selena Gomez.

"And Cole and I turned to each other and we basically laughed in their faces and walked out, and that was the last meeting we had with Disney."